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harvested and sawn hardwood. The construction cost was 1500 pounds per mile. The line was roughly built, because sharp corners remained at the rail joints, to save construction costs. The on the ballast consisted of rock or sand. During the construction
William Norton died on February 5, 1909, while felling a tree.
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The logging railroad began at the Coffs Harbor jetty, crossed Coffs Creek on a wooden bridge and then ran to
Macaulay's Headland, where the first lumberyard was located. As the track was upgraded, the route was extended from Macaulay Headland climbing up the slope to Bruxner Park until the turnoff to
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In 1907 BAT Co applied for permission to build a forest railway for the transport of logs to the sawmill and began in the same year, shortly after obtaining the approval, with the construction track. BAT Co laid steel rails weighing 17.4 kg/m (35 lb/yd) onto wooden sleepers made of locally
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British Australian Timber Company (BAT Co) was founded in 1906 as a subsidiary of Dalgety Holdings. It purchased in October 1906 a sawmill, which had been set-up in 1903 by George W. Nichols. The deal included machinery and equipment, as well as 2.2 hectares (5.5 acres) of land in
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